ENG: Jeanne Shaheen (born January 28, 1947) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the Senior United States Senator from New Hampshire. The first woman in U.S. history to be elected as both a Governor and U.S. Senator, she was the first woman to be elected Governor of New Hampshire, serving from 1997 to 2003. Shaheen ran for the United States Senate in 2002, but was narrowly defeated by Republican challenger John E. Sununu. She then served as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, before resigning to run again for the U.S. Senate in the 2008 election, defeating Sununu in a rematch. Shaheen is the first Democratic Senator from NH since John A. Durkin, who retired in 1980, and is currently the most junior senior Senator.
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U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen continues to draw national attention to the vacant federal prison in Berlin. This week, New Hampshire’s senior senator published a letter in the New York Times warning her colleagues that the federal prison system is overcrowded and pointing to a May 24 Times article about a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a California. Shaheen noted the court ruled 5-4 that California must reduce overcrowding in its prison system by 30,000. While not as overcrowded as California, Shaheen said the federal prison system is 35 percent over capacity and that figure is expected to ...

In a sign that bipartisanship is not dead and Washington is not completely dysfunctional, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has joined forces with Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman to create the beginnings of a national energy efficiency strategy. The bill the pair sponsored, the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011, contains a raft of commonsense measures to spur energy efficiency efforts that could save government, industry and consumers hundreds of billions of dollars.
The need to wean the United States off fossil fuels and New Hampshire, in particular, off its heavy reliance on ...

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Monday joined former U.S. Sen. John Warner at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in a bipartisan effort to show support for a more energy-efficient government.
Having toured several shipyard facilities Monday morning, the pair held a joint briefing outside the yard's gates. They were joined by representatives of U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine.
Shaheen, who is a co-sponsor of bipartisan energy efficient legislation, The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011, said she's always considered the local shipyard near and dear to ...

Scott Brown suggests voter fraud in NH without evidenceFormer Sen. Scott Brown says it's possible that there was widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire, a state that went to Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton Scott Brown suggests voter fraud in NH without evidence Trump's America is the worst of Castro's Cuba with no silver lining Conway argues Trump saved GOP from becoming party of elites MORE Donald Trump Graham to roll out extension of Obama immigration program Tom Price is right for HHS Scott Brown suggests voter fraud in NH without evidence MORE "The people need to understand, people from Massachusetts could've gone up and voted that day," Brown said in an interview with Boston Herald radio on Wednesday. "And, quite frankly, some do.

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Senate Votes to Count Outdoor Segment in GDPAccording to a news release, the Outdoor REC Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives two weeks ago, also with unanimous, bipartisan support. With passage in both chambers, the REC Act, introduced just a year ago by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Senator Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is expected to be signed into law by President Obama before the end of the year.